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Scholarworks At Wmu: Overview For Friends Of The Libraries, Maira Bundza
Scholarworks At Wmu: Overview For Friends Of The Libraries, Maira Bundza
ScholarWorks Repository Information
An overview of ScholarWorks, the scholarly institutional repository for Western Michigan University begun in 2011. Faculty work, student work, journals, events and conferences, newsletters, and other projects are in the repository and have been downloaded close to half a million times.
Is It Really Time To Replace Your Ils With A Next-Generation Option?, Keith Kelley, Carrie C. Leatherman, Geraldine Rinna
Is It Really Time To Replace Your Ils With A Next-Generation Option?, Keith Kelley, Carrie C. Leatherman, Geraldine Rinna
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
A claimed benefit of the emerging next-generation, cloud-based systems is to give libraries new efficiencies, allowing them to do more with less. And we can hardly wait. But we suspect that they are not there yet.
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Online Information Literacy Tutorials For Millennial Undergraduates, Dianna E. Sachs, Kathleen Langan, Carrie C. Leatherman, Jennifer L. Walters
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Online Information Literacy Tutorials For Millennial Undergraduates, Dianna E. Sachs, Kathleen Langan, Carrie C. Leatherman, Jennifer L. Walters
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
This article reports on the findings of a study that evaluated the effectiveness of redesigning online information literacy tutorials in order to meet the learning needs and preferences of Millennial students. Using both quantitative and qualitative measures, this study compared two different online tutorials – a static, HTML-based tutorial and a dynamic, interactive, audio/video tutorial. This study found that, contrary to generalizations made in the library and education literature, Millennial students learned equally well from both tutorials. However, students expressed a much higher level of satisfaction from the tutorial designed to be “Millennial friendly.”
Scholarworks At Wmu For Faculty, Maira Bundza
Scholarworks At Wmu For Faculty, Maira Bundza
ScholarWorks Repository Information
This poster was created for a New Faculty Open House at Waldo Library on September 26, 2013. It describes how ScholarWorks at WMU can support faculty by helping promote and disseminate research, offering a platform for a journal or conference, etc.
Institutional Repositories For Business, Maira Bundza
Institutional Repositories For Business, Maira Bundza
ScholarWorks Repository Information
This was presented tot a meeting of the Michigan Association for Business Librarians held at Western Michigan University on August 1, 2013. ScholarWorks was used as an example how an institutional repository can support the academic work of a business college.
Scholarworks At Wmu: Western's Scholarly Repository For Faculty Senate, Maira Bundza
Scholarworks At Wmu: Western's Scholarly Repository For Faculty Senate, Maira Bundza
ScholarWorks Repository Information
This was a presentation given at the May 16, 2013 Faculty Senate meeting to a representative from each department and administrators on the progress of the scholarly institutional repository at Western Michigan University. The focus was on ways the faculty could take advantage of the repository.
Shedding Light On Hidden Collections, Marianne Swierenga, Sheila A. Bair
Shedding Light On Hidden Collections, Marianne Swierenga, Sheila A. Bair
Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter
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Gatherings No. 47 Fall 2012/Spring 2013, Friends Of The University Libraries
Gatherings No. 47 Fall 2012/Spring 2013, Friends Of The University Libraries
Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter
Complete issue of Gatherings No. 47.
Open Access Publishing, Maira Bundza
Open Access Publishing, Maira Bundza
Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age
Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.
Beyond Jstor (For The Social Sciences And Education), Maria A. Perez-Stable
Beyond Jstor (For The Social Sciences And Education), Maria A. Perez-Stable
Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age
Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.
Inspiring Results: Designing Innovative Instruction Using Faculty Feedback On Technology Use And Attitudes Toward Library Research Instruction, Maria A. Perez-Stable, Dianna E. Sachs, Patricia F. Vander Meer
Inspiring Results: Designing Innovative Instruction Using Faculty Feedback On Technology Use And Attitudes Toward Library Research Instruction, Maria A. Perez-Stable, Dianna E. Sachs, Patricia F. Vander Meer
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
The importance of information literacy (IL) at the college level is well documented. Like many other institutions, Western Michigan University (WMU) has come to recognize the value of IL, after years of deliberate and steady promotion of its benefits to the WMU community by the University Libraries. A crucial question that has emerged as part of the Libraries’ strategic plan to meet the University’s IL needs is this: What are the best ways to deliver library instruction to address the needs of today’s students and faculty, keeping in mind emerging and changing technologies to which faculty and students relate?
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Making Your Publications Count!, Michele Behr, Maira Bundza
Making Your Publications Count!, Michele Behr, Maira Bundza
Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age
Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.
Beyond Web Of Science (For The Sciences), Carrie Leatherman
Beyond Web Of Science (For The Sciences), Carrie Leatherman
Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age
Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers. Presentation and additional file is available here for download (see bottom of page for additional file).
Digital Scholarship, Kate Langan, Sue Steuer
Digital Scholarship, Kate Langan, Sue Steuer
Advancing Your Research Skills for the Digital Age
Brief presentation at Advancing Your Research Skill for the Digital Age: a workshop for grad students and faculty researchers.
Developing A Premodern Manuscript Application Profile Using Dublin Core, Sheila A. Bair, Susan M.B. Steuer
Developing A Premodern Manuscript Application Profile Using Dublin Core, Sheila A. Bair, Susan M.B. Steuer
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
Librarians and catalogers, particularly at small repositories, often do not have the training or access to experts to fully describe a medieval manuscript for cataloging, much less digital access. But some descriptions must be available to attract researchers to work with the materials, which are often considered institutional treasures. Approaching manuscripts can be daunting for metadata specialists and catalogers. The Dublin Core Premodern Manuscripts Application Profile (PMAP), currently under development, is designed to be an educational and simple tool for medievalists with little knowledge of metadata and librarians with little knowledge of manuscript studies to facilitate discovery of manuscripts in …
Opening PandoraʼS Stream: Piping Music Into The Information Literacy Classroom, Kathleen Langan, Dianna E. Sachs
Opening PandoraʼS Stream: Piping Music Into The Information Literacy Classroom, Kathleen Langan, Dianna E. Sachs
University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
Although it is well known that music can affect cognitive processes, little research has been conducted examining the influence of background music on students in information literacy classrooms. In 2010, librarians at Western Michigan University investigated the effect of background music on student engagement and retention of information literacy concepts. This article examines the theory and practical applications of background music to improve a classroom atmosphere and its impact on students’ learning. Results from this qualitative and quantitative study indicate positive correlations between background music and student comfort, confidence, and retention. DOI: 10.1080/15228959.2013.785876